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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous poster says Sidwell's matriculations at Yale and Penn for 2015 are 18. Post says Sidwell sent 3 to Penn, and Yale didn't even make it into Sidwell's reporting on its matriculations in 2012.

Now do you see why anonymous parent reporting seems a little BSish? [/quote]

It was pretty thoroughly discussed last year, and confirmed here by many posters (albeit anonymous) that Sidwell had something like 11 students going to Yale in the 2015 class.  So saying Yale+Penn=18 doesn't seem like a stretch to me.  Can't speak to the other numbers.

My two cents - Speaking personally, I'd say Sidwell's a school lots of really smart kids attend.  There are a few other private schools in the DC area that are considered in the same general tier of school, like NCS and St Albans and maybe GDS or Maret.  I'd assume those high schools "compete" for many (but obviously not all) bright and accomplished students.  So I'd also assume they all send those bright and accomplished students to a similar mix of top colleges each year.  I'm sure there are year-to-year variations, but I'd bet they even out over time.  Those same private schools seem to have been considered the top schools in DC for 30+ years now, so I doubt there's much change over time relative to one another.  So for example, if you see 25-30% of NCS students going to top colleges, I'd bet that about 25-30% of the students from Sidwell and St Albans are going to top colleges too.

That's maybe rougher and less-precise that people here want, and it lends itself less to comparison and bragging because it suggests rough parity, but I'd bet it's pretty accurate if all the numbers were magically revealed.  Also, in the end, do you really care how some other kids did?  Don't you really just care about how your own 1-3 kids will do?  [/quote]

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